Jean Cocteau Quotes

Do not close the circle. Leave it open. Descartes closes the circle. Pascal leaves it open. Rousseau's triumph over the encyclopedists is to have left his circle open when they closed theirs.

No se debe confundir la verdad con la opinión de la mayoría.

The trouble about the Académie is that by the time they get around to electing us to a seat, we really need a bed.

Consider metaphysics as an extension of the physical.

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

I am burning myself up and will always do so.

Each day in the mirror I watch death at work.

I would like to be able to convey to you the sound of dead voices, to break open this unbearable tomb of sound, to wrest something more than silhouettes from vanished years and by some unimaginable trick let you hear the ha-ha-ha with which Catulle Mendès accompanied the slightest sentence, the muffled voice of Edmond Rostand or the laughter which Proust smeared over his face with his white-gloved hand and his beard.

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.